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Depressing article from USAToday by Elizabeth Weise about how the US is now 28th on the list of global gender equality, behind Rowanda and some other third world countries.

Report on the Huffington Post on International Women's Day, 3/9/15 on the Q & A on Facebook that actress Emma Watson did on how critical it is for both men and women to come together in the fight for gender equality.

Preoccupations feature by Peggy Klaus, August 14, 2016, speaks to whether women-only conferences, corporate workshops, and networking soirees (single-sex type events) enable women to move up in the workplace. May be an overreliance in some corporations.

New York Times, May 28. 2015 by Claire Cain Miller "The biggest obstacle to women in joining the highest ranks of the business world is a lack of family-friendly policies. That, at least, has been the conventional wisdom in recent years, and it has been embraced by progressive companies that offer flexible schedules or allow people to work from home. But some researchers are now arguing that the real problem is not the lack of family-friendly policies for mothers, but the surge in hours worked by both women and men. And companies are not likely to want to adopt the obvious solution."

Incredible infographic on social networking around the world located on Edudemic, 1.26.13 What it raises for me: Does being a member of a social network equal proficiency or satisfaction with use? If we already have this kind of saturation, what is the niche for the Studio for fill?

Nice blog by Danielle Holly, Common Impact, on engaging remote employees and skilled volunteers with good sources cited in the article, May 17, 2016. If everyone is remote, everyone is equal, but skilled management is still needed.

press release on Accenture study looking at how digitally savvy women are helping to close the gender gap in the workplace, March 3, 2016. 

introduction to new Accenture study on importance of digital fluency in education, workplace, and in leadership

new study on how digital fluency has great potential for closing gender gap for women, March 2016.

Another excellent resource from PLP for Connected Educators (available through Dropbox) to kick off Connected Educators Month. What if August were also Women's e-Quality month? or Women's Webquality Month? August 26 is Women's Equality Day . . . something to think about for next year? Wonder which women's organizations might bite and support such an event.

blog post by Allison Stadd on Media Bistro, December 9, 2013. Shows how Twitter users have moved from original purpose (what are you doing now?) to more worthwhile pursuits on Twitter. "When I explained that I use Twitter for purely professional and informational purposes - keeping up with news in real time, tracking trends, reading interesting articles, and cultivating relationships - she was surprised, and shared that she'd like to try that out. I was equally surprised at her impression of Twitter in the first place."

nice summary slide program on what AND men can do to help foster equality in the workplace

"The way mothers and fathers spend their time has changed dramatically in the past half century. Dads are doing more housework and child care; moms more paid work outside the home. Neither has overtaken the other in their "traditional" realms, but their roles are converging, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of long-term data on time use. At the same time, roughly equal shares of working mothers and fathers report in a new Pew Research Center survey feeling stressed about juggling work and family life: 56% of working moms and 50% of working dads say they find it very or somewhat difficult to balance these responsibilities."

great exploration of four types of platforms including learning platforms by John Hagel, August 14, 2014

Amy-Mae Elliott names three advance tweet schedulers in this post from 2013--LaterBro, Future Tweets, and Twuffer--with equal endorsements.

Article by Timothy Stafford, November 2014, eLearn Magazine. Reports on study of 25 instructional designers who had at least three years of experience in p.i. design and one year of implementing social media into their instructional design platforms. Most interesting to me is the equal weight given to 3 learning theories to drive design and very broad definition of social media (which I agree with). Conclusion "Learning is shifting, but in many ways it is the foundations of learning that are having the most profound effect on contemporary instructional designers. Defining social media, digital literacy and learning, knowing, and expertise are only the tip of the iceberg for the future of learning within digital environments."

A Data-driven approach to gender equality shows that although some gains have been made, not enough have been. Since 1995, the baseline data year, shows mixed gains. For example, some women still don't have the right to vote, 1 in 4 girls was married before her 18th birthday, girls and boys test similarly in math and science yet women are still not entering those higher paying fields. On the plus side, more women are surviving childbirth and the general health of women has improved.

by Eilene Zimmerman, April 2, 2017, on what college women are concerned with: discrimination, safety, unequal pay, equal opportunity, immigration

Vision Critical's recently published study, From Social to Sale provides answers to exactly how a company's social media strategy could be tailed to drive sales. The study evaluated social media purchasing against participation in Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.

Top Findings: About 40% of social media users have purchased an item after sharing or "favoriting" it on these sites. (The company uses "Shared or Favorited" to mean pinned/repinned/liked on Pinterest; shared/liked/commented on Facebook; tweeted/retweeted or favorite on Twitter.) Facebook is the network most likely to drive customers to purchase. Social media drives not just online purchasing, but in-store purchasing as well - and at about equal rates.

Maria Perez, in this article on 4/23/15 from the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog, states that by 2043 the US will be a "minority" nation, and the Latino population will increase by more than 100% between now and 2060 when one in three people will be Latino. As a result of this, she argues that it is time to embrace the idea of new integration models that will increase Latino college graduation rates, wealth, income, representation in all professions, boards of directors, gov't, and business. The article goes on to describe what these integration models could be.